Yes there are rules. Patent laws are not the only rules but also the general accepted principles of business are required.
Abner Doubleday. Later research has shown that the story of Doubleday inventing baseball is a myth; the first person to codify the rules of the game was actually Alexander Cartwright.
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After inventing them, he then proceeded to sell them.
There are no schools of inventing, people learn to invent from school
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Abner Doubleday, a Union General during the Civil War, is generally credited with inventing the game in 1839, and therefore establishing the first set of rules. (There is substantial evidence that would debunk Doubleday's involvement in the evolution of the game1.) The rules have been revised, improved and clarified many, many times since then. 1 Wikipedia.org, "Abner Doubleday"
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